Amor Towles Quotes

As a kid, I would get my parents to drop me off at my local library on their way to work during the summer holidays, and I would walk home at night. For several years, I read the children's library until I finished the children's library. Then I moved into the adult library and slowly worked my way through them.

When I was 9 or 10 years old it wasn't the thing to be seen doing - reading a book in your spare time.

I tell you this: I'm not an outdoorsman. Actually, one of my things is to pick a little corner in Borders or Barnes & Noble and fall back and just read.

I've always been fascinated by books. When I was young, my grandfather used to hand out a book - which would be anything from a biography to a classic - to me every week and ask me to write a piece on what I thought about it. On the other hand, my mother used to love reading thrillers and bestsellers.

In 1927, if you were stuck with idle time, reading is what you did. It's no accident that the 'Book-of-the-Month Club' and 'The Literary Guild' were founded in that period as well as a lot of magazines, like 'Reader's Digest,' 'Time,' and 'The New Yorker.'

Yes, we're pretty into books around my house. We have lots and lots of books around. We have TV, but really no one ever watches it.

I was a library rat and a bookworm. I read all the time. I walked to school reading books. I read under my desk.

I read over a hundred books a year and have done so since I was fifteen years old, and every book I've read has taught me something.

I've always loved words. I ate up all the books I could get my hands on, and when I couldn't get books, I read candy wrappers and labels on cereal and toothpaste boxes.

As a writer, you should care about reluctant readers. You want these kids to feel like books are amazing and cool and that they're an escape.

I don't really read a lot. Maybe I should.

I read like an animal. I read under the covers, I read lying in the grass, I read at the dinner table. While other people were talking to me, I read.

President Kennedy was a voracious reader and was forever coming up with fascinating bits of information.

I read more than I do anything else, probably. I read about three books a week.

I'm one of those freaky people that actually reads books.

We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading. Knowing the contents of a few works of literature is a trivial achievement. Being inclined to go on reading is a great achievement.

I grew up in Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, and reading was a big part of my life - I'd get through several books a week.

Both of my parents had me reading at a really young age. Maybe it was a hereditary thing, but my mom always had my nose in a book. I've always been a bookworm.

My only dream is to get old and finally have time to read all the books that I'm collecting.

I'm actually not a big reader.

I used to read a good deal of science fiction when I was a boy.

Of course I always like going to bookstores, but at stores, you're mostly meeting kids who are already into reading.

Pleasure reading has long been an American ideal - generations of schoolchildren have headed home for the summer toting recreational reading lists. But try to pitch it to a group of non-readers, and they quickly become suspicious.

Pretty much every night of their lives, my 8-year-old sons have absorbed themselves entirely in books. As toddlers, they pointed out pictures, made conjectures; lately, we find them in their bunk beds embarked upon two-hour comic-reading benders.

I didn't watch TV or movies as a kid.